Lemon LIVE at 5 | BREAKING: Trump Sues the Wall Street Journal! - July 18th, 2025
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What is the breaking news about Trump suing the Wall Street Journal and who is being named?
oh my god guys it never ends you're not gonna believe it i'm not just making an excuse i'm not just making excuses so moments before we're supposed to go on the air i'm talking to the producers and i'm like okay uh all right what else do we have should we go let's get ready to go and then peter says stop you're not gonna believe this and so we hold up we don't go on the air And Peter, tell us what the breaking news you told us just before we went on the air, not more than five minutes ago.
The breaking news, Don, is that President Donald Trump has filed a suit against Rupert Murdoch, the Dow Jones, and the Wall Street Journal over their story regarding the Epstein birthday letter.
You guys get that? Donald Trump has now filed a lawsuit. He is suing the Wall Street Journal. Over the report, the bombshell report that dropped last night, it is the breaking news. Let's put it up on the screen, Andy. Breaking news. Trump sues WSJ, or Wall Street Journal. And so this is what we have. This is from CNBC. Trump sues Murdoch Dow Jones over Wall Street Journal story on Epstein birthday letter. Let's read through it. We're getting this. You're getting this as I'm getting it. Because we just started to put this stuff together, okay? So thank you all for joining. Make sure you hit the thumbs up. Make sure you hit the like. I know it's a Friday evening. We had wanted to do a show for you. That was not quite so serious.
It is Friday in the summer. We're supposed to be dealing with the doldrums. But yet, here we go. There is nothing dull about what's happening in this. President Donald Trump sued Rupert Murdoch for libel. after his Wall Street Journal published an article saying Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a body letter for Epstein's 50th birthday. The Journal reported that the letter allegedly sent in 2003 was among documents included in evidence assembled by federal criminal investigators as part of their probe of Epstein. Keep scrolling. Trump and Epstein had been friends, but fell out years before Epstein was arrested on charges of child sex trafficking. This was in 2019. So the breaking news is that Donald Trump is suing the WSJ, and we should add, and Trump.
Rupert Murdoch or add and Murdoch or Rupert Murdoch, whatever you want to say. Remember, Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal. He also owns Fox News, News Corp, yada, yada, yada. President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his threat to sue media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his Wall Street Journal published an article saying that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a body letter for Epstein's 50th birthday. Court records show that Trump filed the lawsuit. Keep scrolling. filed the lawsuit alleging libel against Murdoch, the journal's publisher, Dow Jones, and the reporters who wrote the article in federal court for the Southern District of Florida. The complaint was not immediately available.
Someone get Dave Ehrenberg on the line. This was filed in Florida, please. I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his pile of garbage newspaper, the Wall Street, the WSJ. That will be an interesting experience. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier on Friday. Remember, Dave Ehrenberg was the state's attorney for Palm Beach County. We'll see. He may be traveling. He said he was going to be in town today. So we'll see if we can get him. We're going to have Monique Presley joining us, our legal mind here on the Don Lemon Show to talk to us about this as well. Keep scrolling through. President Donald Trump sues the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch and Dow Jones. Trump on Thursday night had angrily denied writing the letter to Epstein in 2003.
The Wall Street Journal printed a fake letter supposedly to Epstein. Trump wrote in the Truth Social Post that evening. These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a scam that he shouldn't print the fake story, but he did. And now I'm going to sue his ass off and that of his third-rate newspaper. And this is from CNBC.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the breaking news about Trump suing the Wall Street Journal and who is being named?
0:15–7:29
2
What did the Wall Street Journal report about a 2003 Epstein birthday letter attributed to Trump?
7:29–22:09
3
What claims does Trump’s lawsuit allege (libel, slander, and assault) and why is 'assault' unusual?
22:09–51:10
4
How could discovery in a defamation suit expose Trump's communications or relations with Epstein?
51:10–59:58